Six boats went up in flames in the early hours of Thursday morning. Police are still investigating what caused half a dozen boats on the eastern Rummelsburger Bay of the Spree River to catch fire early Thursday morning, according to Tagesspiegel. Emergency services were alerted to the fire at about 4.30am and were able to ultimately put out the flames. Initially fire services encountered a problem in trying to douse the flames because Berlin’s only proper fire extinguishing boat was in Spandau on the other side of the city. That Berlin has just one proper fire services boat has been a complaint for years.

Source: The Local March 23, 2017 09:33 UTC